POLITICS;Closing Arguments

"You've got to decide whether or not you want someone with experience, someone who's sort of been prepared for this job, someone who, based upon his experience, can make the right judgments." STEVE FORBES

He toured the Simplex Wire and Cable factory in Newington, where he gave a speech to workers:

"America has really three choices in this world that we're entering. We can have a world of drift, where the President gets up each day and figures out by looking at the polls what he's supposed to believe that day, with no coherence, no vision for moving America forward. There's another vision that says America can't compete in the world anymore, that America can't move ahead, that we have to bunker down, hunker down, and isolate ourselves from the world, sort of a fortress mentality. I see America as that shining city on the hill. I believe our best days are ahead."

PATRICK J. BUCHANAN

He stopped at a lumber yard in Center Barnstead, N.H., to argue that American face unfair competition from Canadian ones:

"You cannot force American workers, who make 10 bucks an hour, 15 bucks an hour, 20 bucks an hour, to go into head-to-head competition with people who make a dollar an hour and 25 cents an hour. If you do, you will lose your working class jobs, and we've been losing them; if you do, your real wages will fall, and they're falling; if you do, your middle-class standard of income will begin to decline."

ALAN KEYES

He stayed with the theme of morality that has marked his campaign, telling students at Dartmouth College in Hanover:

"If we don't do something now, it will be too late to turn off the road to totalitarian despotism that we are on now. . . . If you're a sane person, you don't get much out of running for President."

LAMAR ALEXANDER

He pushed his theme of returning power to the states, telling a forum at Phillips Exeter Academy:

"What I'm trying to suggest is not that we can win a war with the states, not that we should repeal the civil rights laws with the states, not that we should stop the interstate highway program or even the national clean air and water standards. I'm saying we've stuck in Washington a few things that don't belong there."